Page 5: Historical Events In May - 24

1895  On May - 24 playright Oscar Wilde is convicted on a morals charge in London and sentenced to prison   

1895  On May - 24 henry Irving becomes 1st theatrical knight   

1895  H S T L "Stork" Hendry, cricketer (Australian all-rounder post-WWI) on May - 24.   

1895  Joseph Quinaux, Belgian painter, dies at 73 on May - 24.   

1898  Kathleen Hale, British children book writer/illustrator (Orlando) on May - 24.   

1899  On May - 24 the first auto repair shop opens in Boston   

1899  1st auto repair shop opens (Boston) on this day in history.   

1899  Suzanne Lenglen, France, Wimbledon tennis champion (6-times) on this day in history.   

1900  Australians cross Vaal River in South Africa on this day in history.   

1900  On May - 24 britain annexes Orange Free State   

1900  34th Belmont: Nash Turner aboard Ildrim wins in 2:21¼ on this day in history.   

1901  On May - 24 seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.   

1902  Empire Day first celebrated in Britain on this day in history.   

1902  On this day in history empire Day 1st celebrated in Britain   

1903  Aram Katchaturian, Armenian composer, (Earth) on this day in history.   

1904  On this day in history george Formby, [William Booth], Brit singer/comic (Let George Do It)   

1905  On May - 24 39th Belmont: Eugene Hildebrand aboard Tanya wins in 2:08   

1905  Mikhail Sholokhov, USSR, writer (And Quiet Flows the Don, Nobel 1965) on this day in history.   

1906  Edmund Sargant, solicitor on this day in history.   

1908  On this day in history belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election   

1908  Kresimir Fribec, composer on May - 24.   

1909  On May - 24 bristol University granted Royal Charter   

1909  On this day in history guillermo Diaz-Plaja, Spanish literary/poet (Lorca)   

1910  On May - 24 margers Zarins, composer   

1912  Joan Hammond, British operatic soprano on this day in history.   

1913  Audrey Brown, England, 4 X 100m runner (Olympic-silver-1936) on this day in history.   

1914  Clifford Irving, Chairman (Isle of Man Govt) on May - 24.   

1915  Enemy Contracts Annulment Act on this day in history.   

1915  On this day in history formal truce on Gallipoli during which the Turkish dead of the 19 May attacks are buried   

1915  On this day in history italy declares war on Austria-Hungary   

1915  On May - 24 thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations   

1916  Conscription begins in Britain on May - 24.   

1916  French driven out of Fort Douaumont after 500 killed or injured on May - 24.   

1916  On this day in history last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname   

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1522  On this day in history birth of john Jewel, English bishop (d. 1571)   

1544  William Gilbert, Essex England, physicist (researcher into magnetism) was born on May - 24.   

1605  On May - 24 birth of nikon, [Nikita Minin], patriarch of Russian-orthodox church   

1610  On this day in history birth of giovanni Battista Chinelli, composer   

1616  John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale (d. 1682) was born on this day in history.   

1619  Philips Wouwerman(s), Dutch painter was born on May - 24.   

1650  John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, English general strategist was born on May - 24.   

1671  Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1737) was born on this day in history.   

1144  Petronella, wife of earl Floris II the Vette of Holland/regent, dies on this day in history.   

1153  On May - 24 david I, King of Scotland, dies   

1351  On this day in history death of abu al-Hasan 'Ali, Sultan of Morocco (b. circa 1297)   

1408  Death of Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1335) on May - 24.   

1425  On May - 24 death of murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, Scottish politician (b. 1362)   

1456  On May - 24 death of ambroise de Loré, French military commander (b. 1396)   

1543  Nicolas Copernicus, astronomer, dies in Poland on May - 24.   

1612  On May - 24 robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury/PM (1598-1612), dies at 48